Matthew 21:38
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said to each other, ‘Here's the heir! Come on! Let's kill him so we can take his inheritance!’
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37So then he sent his son. ‘They will respect my son,’ he told himself.
39They grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
Cross References
1 Kings 1:12Let me give you some advice so you can save your life, and that of your son Solomon.
Matthew 2:13After they'd left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and told him, “Get up, and take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt. Remain there until I tell you, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
Matthew 27:1Early in the morning all the chief priests and elders of the people consulted together and decided to have Jesus put to death.
Luke 20:14But when they saw him coming, the farmers said to themselves, ‘This is the owner's heir. Let's kill him! That way we can take his inheritance.’
Acts 4:27Now this has really happened right here in this city! Both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the foreigners and the people of Israel, united together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed as Messiah.
Hebrews 1:2has in these last days spoken to us through his Son. God appointed the Son heir of everything, and made the universe through him.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 21:34-46
The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more… Read the whole commentary →